Typhoon hits philippines 2016

A typhoon that spoiled Christmas Day in parts of the Philippines weakened slightly on Monday as it roared toward a congested region near the country's capital, officials said.
They said Typhoon Nock-Ten killed at least one person and cut power to five provinces as well as displacing thousands of villagers and travelers in Asia's Catholic bastion. A farmer died after being pinned by a fallen tree in Quezon province southeast of Manila a few hours after the typhoon slammed into the country Sunday night. It then blew westward across mountainous and island provinces, damaging homes, uprooting trees and knocking down communications, according to officials and local news reports. Although it has slightly weakened, the typhoon still has sustained winds of up 140 kilometers (90 miles) per hour, government forecasters said, and was moving toward the heavily populated provinces of Batangas and Cavite, south of Manila on Monday morning. Tens of thousands of villagers, forced to spend Christmas … [Read more...] about Typhoon leaves 1 dead, messes up Christmas in Philippines

Typhoon Nock-Ten left three dead: a couple and an elderly man. A powerful typhoon left three dead and threatened to bring heavy rains and winds to the heavily-populated Philippine capital as it dragged its way across the archipelago on Monday, spoiling the Christmas holidays. Typhoon Nock-Ten, which made landfall on the eastern island province of Catanduanes on Sunday, is forecast to move westward towards the country's heartland, packing winds of 215 kilometres (134 miles) per hour. A couple were reported killed by a flood while an elderly man was crushed by a falling wall, governor of the storm-ravaged eastern province of Albay Al Bichara said on local television. More than 383,000 people have fled their homes while over 80 domestic and international flights have been cancelled, the civil defense office said, as the unusually late typhoon marred Christmas celebrations in the largely Christian nation. The government weather station said Nock-Ten is moving northwest at 20 … [Read more...] about Christmas typhoon leaves three dead in Philippines

'A wholesale bilateral fishing industry deal is still being discussed, an agreement has not yet been reached.' China is considering a "wholesale" deal that will grant Philippine fishing vessels access to disputed Scarborough Shoal waters in the South China Sea (which Vietnam calls the East Sea), an influential Chinese academic and government adviser said on Friday, as relations between the two countries improve. China has been thinking of means to grant Philippine fishing vessels access to the island's waters since President Rodrigo Duterte visited Beijing in October, said Wu Shicun, head of government-run National Institute for South China Sea Studies. "A wholesale bilateral fishing industry deal is still being discussed, an agreement has not yet been reached," Wu said at a forum in Beijing. China's bitter squabble with the Philippines over the waters has subsided since Duterte's visit, which came shortly after a Netherlands-based arbitration court ruled in favour of the … [Read more...] about China considers granting Philippines access to disputed shoal – adviser

The increasing demand for the staple grain prompted the Philippines to buy more from regional suppliers. The Philippines has allowed its businesses to import an extra 293,100 tons of rice from Vietnam to ensure food security in the between-crop period, according to the Vietnam Food Association (VFA). The businesses are also permitted to buy a similar amount from Thailand, 50,000 tons from China, India and Pakistan as well as other countries. The total volume is 805,200 tons and the delivery time is set as no later than February 28. VFA Chairman Huynh The Nang said that this is an opportunity for Vietnamese exporters to boost sales. Previously, in late August 2016, Vietnam won a bid to supply 150,000 tons of the grain, mostly the 25 percent broken rice variety, to the Philippines with an offer of $424.85 per ton. The country beat out Thailand and Cambodia. The Philippines annually imports about 1 million tons of the staple grain, or even higher, in order to bolster stockpiles that … [Read more...] about Vietnam exporters upbeat as Philippines set to import more rice

Typhoon Sarika passed Luzon Island of the Philippines and entered the East Sea on October 16 morning, becoming the seventh storm to hit this waters in 2016.
The forecast path of typhoon Sarika (Photo: nchmf.gov.vn)
At 8am of the day, the centre of Sarika was on the western coast of Luzon Island with the strongest winds in the eyewall of 150-165km per hour, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.
In the next 24 hours, the storm is predicted to move west-northwest and then westwards at a speed of 20-25km per hour.
At 7am of October 17, its eye is expected at about 16.7 degrees north latitude and 114.6 degrees east longitude, about 250km east of Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago. Sarika can keep sustaining winds of up to 150-165km per hour.
The dangerous area at that time, with wind speeds of between 39km and 49km per hour, will be in the north of the 14 th parallel … [Read more...] about Typhoon Sarika coming, East Sea faces 7th storm this year